DISCLAIMER: This recap of Outer Range Season 2, episode 7, “The End of Innocence” contains spoilers. Read at your risk.
In episode 6 of Outer Range, “Do-Si-Do”, Autumn becomes increasingly erratic, especially after ingesting the mineral and tripping balls. Meanwhile, Perry Abbott seems to want to stay in the 80s and gets in another fight with 80s Wayne Tillerson. However, this time, a drunk and mineral-tripping Present Wayne, inhabits 80s Wayne and discovers that Present Perry is there. Confused yet? We are too! Rhett Abbott is approached by Dr. Bintu who wants details about the hole. The unwanted Tillerson son, Luke, ends up killing his little brother, Billy and then goes off to do a team-up with Autumn. While this is going down Royal and Cecilia find out where Rebecca took their granddaughter Amy and head out to find them.
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Outer Range Season 2 Finale, “The End of Innocence”
I’d like to say that Outer Range’s Season 2 finale, “The End of Innocence”, answers all of our questions with a neat little bow, but, well… this is Outer Range we are talking about. The official synopsis for this episode 7 is “Time is a motherf**ker.” We’ll just add, and so is trying to figure out what just happened. However, we weren’t deterred from trying. Read on for our recap of episode 7.
Happy Family
The Abbotts eat a family dinner outside and it’s picture-perfect with everyone is laughing. Rebecca (Monette Moio) is the only one who looks uncomfortable. Royal (Josh Brolin) has this memory while he and Cecilia (Lili Taylor) drive to try and retrieve Amy from the women’s shelter, Fourwing.
At the Tillersons, Wayne (Will Patton) has discovered a dead Billy (Noah Reid). He calls Luke (Shaun Sipos) and leaves a fatherly message, “If I’d known your true colors, I’d have named you Cain. All your brother did was love you. And you didn’t deserve it. And because of what you did what’s left of your soul will melt in your poisonous heart.” Cool, cool.
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Wayne walks into a room with a flaming torch because I guess he happened to have one handy. He then sets the house on fire starting with all the taxidermied owls. He sits and watches the flames go up.
Fathers and Sons
Back in the 80s at the hole, a younger Royal (Christian James) asks Perry (Tom Pelphrey) if he told him the story of the son who tried to shoe the unbroken horse. Perry says no.
He tells the story of a family’s succession. A firstborn son knows his younger brother is the father’s favorite so to impress the dad so he tries to shoe an unbroken horse. However, he got kicked and became paralyzed. Because he wasn’t thinking, he had to watch the younger one inherit everything.
Royal says the point is if you tamper with what’s wild, you’re bound to get kicked. Perry shouldn’t be there. Royal says “Go home, Perry” and then pushes him into the hole.
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Burning Down the House
Luke and Autumn (Imogen Poots) drive toward Fourwing. His eyes water as he thinks about killing Billy. Autumn takes her anti-seizure medication and asks what Luke wants. He replies, what he envisioned, the West Pasture.
He says, in his vision, she was leading people with him by her side. She says that the pasture belonged to his father. Luke confides that his dad is going to leave everything to Billy. She wonders if Billy would share but he doesn’t want to talk about his brother and his eyes tear up again.
Autumn senses something’s up and asks if Billy is okay. He says no. Then she tells Luke if there is one thing she’s learned from all this it’s that death isn’t final.
Wayne sits in his burning house. Something comes over him and he bolts outside. He speaks to, I guess the night and says, “You called me. Now show me.”
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Back to the Future
Fresh out of the hole in a new time period, Perry walks to the Abbott house. He looks in the window and sees Amy lying on Cecilia’s lap. Okay, so he is back in the future, but it’s before everything went pear-shaped. Perry jumps in a truck and races off. He wants to intervene in the fight where he killed Trevor and his nightmare started.
Original timeline Perry pulls up to the bar where his other self is kicking the tar out of Trevor (Matt Lauria). He yells to stop. But it doesn’t go the way he wants because that Perry does indeed stop – but only long enough for Trevor to punch that Perry and kill him.
Trevor looks at both Perry’s with horror and takes off. Original Perry looks and Dead Perry and – oh a plan is hatching.
Dreaming Is Real
Sheriff Joy (Tamara Podemski) sleeps outside of her house on the ground. It’s morning, Martha (Morningstar Angeline) and their daughter find and wake her to one crazy scene. There is a bison, a bear, a wolf and a hawk in their yard watching her then the animals run off.
Luke and Autumn pull up to Fourwing. Autumn talks her way into seeing Rebecca while Luke stays in the truck. She sees Amy who asks after her dad, she misses her family. Autumn lies and says that Perry is missing her and so is Cecilia. Then Autumn tells Amy she will talk Rebecca into letting Amy go with her.
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Autumn finds Rebecca and says she wants to take Amy back to the Abbott Ranch because she isn’t safe with Rebecca. Rebecca is basically, hell no. So, Autumn begins stating facts about Amy that she shouldn’t know like do these people know that Rebecca took Amy? She brings up Amy’s nightmare when her eyes were black and tells Rebecca she was on the other side of that dream because she is Amy.
She recounts details about the day Rebecca left Perry and then accuses Rebecca of taking Amy/Autumn out of spite. Rebecca wants to know how she knows all of this – Autumn says the dream wasn’t a dream.
A now freaked-out Rebecca lets Amy to go with Autumn back to her grandparents and, while Amy grabs her things, Autumn says “Cecilia was right to run you off.” She then smears the mineral on Rebecca’s mouth. Yikes. Rebecca immediately trips, or excuse me, has a vision.
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It’s the cult in the future. We hear Autumn’s voice say “Never a mother, not then, not now.” Autumn’s the leader.
A Gift for Time
Wayne, in all his dramatic glory, approaches the hole. He says “Here I am.” He wants to know if all this is a test and asks for a sign. Just then, a light emanates from the hole and the Earth shakes. All of a sudden, Wayne says “That makes all the sense in the world.” Then he jumps in the hole – well not so much jumps. I’d call it a swan dive.
Royal and Amy pull up to Fourwing. They find out what happened – that Autumn has Amy – Rebecca mumbles, “She’s a gift for time.”
Chasing Amy
Autumn answers Cecilia’s call who has her on speaker. Autumn tells Royal that she would have never known she and Amy were the same person if it wasn’t for him. Cecilia says “Don’t make me regret bringing you into my heart.” Then Autumn sees a vision of standing next to Luke in the future. The two hold hands and stand with a bunch of other folks around the hole.
She tells Royal and Cecilia that Amy is the final piece to the puzzle. He tells her not to throw Amy in that hole because all have the same destiny no matter what she thinks. Autumn says “We’ll see.”
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Royal calls Joy who is in her patrol SUV. He tells her that Autumn and Luke took Amy and are going to throw her in the hole. Joy hangs up the phone and we see that she is surveilling Shelton Cape Realty.
Self Interests
Meanwhile, Dr. Bintu (Yrsa Daley-Ward) meets Rhett (Lewis Pullman) who makes a deal with her. He will get paid to give her and her backing interests information on the land. This turn of events seems like a 180 for Rhett but perhaps it’s to fund him and Maria getting the heck out of Wabang.
Maria is at work counting money. She pockets some cash. Yeah, they want out.
In the very near past, Perry pulls up to the hole and takes his own body out of the truck. He unbuttons Dead Perry’s shirt and puts it on. He does the same with the wedding ring (remember he threw his own in the hole in the 80s – which honestly led me to wonder if there is a hold junkyard somewhere in the universe. Like, where all the trinkets and dead bodies show up.) Perry pushes Dead Perry in. Hence, a divergent timeline is created.
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To the Hole!
Luke, Autumn and Amy pull up to the hole. Joy is there waiting and fires her rifle into the air. As Luke tries to bump Joy into the hole, Joy shoots his tire out. Luke gets out and confronts Joy who knocks him out with the butt of her rifle.
She yells to Autumn that she’s under arrest for kidnapping and endangerment and to get out of the truck. All of a sudden, Amy sees the hole for the first time – it’s scary. Autumn gets out of the truck with a gun and grabs Amy. Joy puts the rifle down. Then Autumn starts stepping toward the hole with Amy.
Royal and Amy drive towards the hole. Suddenly, he winces in discomfort. Royal brings up the family dinner that we saw in the beginning of the episode. It was the night before Rebecca left. Amy thought everything was funny that night.
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As Autumn drags Amy closer to the hole, Royal winces more. Joy shoots Autumn with her sidearm and Amy falls into the hole. At this same moment, Royal appears to have a stroke or heart attack. Just then, the hole closes up. Autumn mumbles, “Many people will follow”
Back to Life
Both Autumn and Royal are at the hospital separately. Cecilia sees Joy who has to tell her what happened. Pastor Ken (Johnny Sneed) walks up and says he and the congregants are praying for Autumn.
Doctors work on Autumn’s gunshot wound but she flatlines and dies. Meanwhile, on a big patch of sand, Amy lies on the ground. She opens her eyes and inhales sharply. At the same time, Autumn inhales sharply on the operating table. She came back to life.
Two hikers run up to Amy and ask what her name is and she says, “I think it might be Autumn.”
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A Hole New World
Meanwhile, in Perry’s divergent timeline, he and Rhett pull up to the ranch separately. Then Amy walks out of the house with Royal and greets her dad. She wants a bedtime story. They all go into the house except Royal who stares into the distance.
In the main timeline. Royal lies in a hospital bed asleep. He has a vision where he walks out of his house. Everyone from his life stands there – his kids, wife, mom, dad, sister, even the child and 80s iterations of himself and Cecilia. Autumn and Perry stand off to the side.
Royal takes this all in and suddenly Cecilia says, “Time is a river, Royal. This is your destiny.” Amy repeats the phrase. And then the whole group begins chanting this in unison. Not creepy at all.
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Royal jerks awake in his hospital bed. He dresses himself and the doctor says to get back in bed. Joy cuts in and Royal tells her, that Autumn’s future is coming and they’ve got to stop it but Joy says that nothing can stop the future. (Season 3 plotline, I suppose?)
Cecilia sees Royal and rushes over. They embrace. Then we go back to Royal’s vision, the group is still chanting, “Time is a river, Royal. This is your destiny.” While they chant, Autumn walks up to him and says that this is just the beginning.
Outer Range is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
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